A Little White Landscape

A clock without numbers

and one broken hand 

stitches facial tissues 

into a queen-size quilt.

It seems as though 

it will never be finished.

[LSS, 10/1/20]

Kitchen Constellations

You were thinking 

about tonight’s sky 

and now look, 

you’ve cut the tip 

off your finger, 

or nearly so.  

Now you think 

I can mend it,

and I probably can,

but it’s still light out

and the bats have 

yet to stir.

[LSS, 10/1/20]

Psychology Today

The bat is misdiagnosed with lunar phobia

when the bat is merely waiting 

for the katydids’ lunar phobia to subside.

[LSS, 10/1/20]